Quotes by : Mike Jay

As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long....

Matthews' shout of treason in the House was no random outburst of lunacy, but the last act in an astonishing....

The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity....

It was Matthews, of course, for whom the verdict was the greatest disaster. Not only had he failed to....

The French army had crowned a campaign of extraordinary successes by defeating the Austrians at Jemappes....

The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately....

At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly....

The Air Loom had been constructed by the Jacobins in Paris around the time of their coup d'etat in 1793.....

If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there....

We are now edging across the boundary - always a porous one - between self-justification and fantasy.....